Financial Analyst

University-of-Albert; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Alberta is hiring a Financial Analyst to support the Finance Partnership Network within Finance, Procurement and Planning. The role focuses on bridging post-award administration, developing standard reporting templates, and building tools for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

The incumbent will perform data entry, journal entries, and monthly reporting, with account analysis and reconciliation, and preparation of management reports and budgets.

Job description

This competition will be used to fill multiple positions.

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person work at North Campus Edmonton.

The Financial Analyst will play a key role in the Finance Partnership Network within Finance, Procurement and Planning in bridging the gap for research post-award administration, develop and implementation of standard reporting templates, generating financial data and building of reporting tools that will help support the finance partnership network in budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

The incumbent will assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders to achieve the goals of the department and division. In addition to day-to-day data entry support, journal entries and monthly reporting, this position will be responsible for account analysis and reconciliation, preparation and distribution of management reports and budgets while ensuring accuracy and consistency as well as making recommendations for improvement in financial reporting and providing guidance, advice and training to community members.

This position will ensure effective data and information management (collection, analysis and reporting),and is responsible for assessing requests, compiling statistical information, investigating, preparing reports and analyzing trend information.